Good luck!

You may not be able to help the situation, but your #1 priority is to protect yourself.

Think of it like this, there are a wide variety of things going on right now that are 110% outside our control. How do you best insulate yourself from the worst of it? How can you make it so it impacts you less?

You don’t have to actually solve the problem, all you have to do is make sure you come out the other side with as little emotional/physical/psychological damage as possible.

Maybe that means getting help from other people, which is what you’re doing here. Maybe it means reaching out to your in person support structure. Maybe it means admitting to someone else you need help, which is the hardest damn thing to do.

I don’t have all the answers, all I can say is you need to look out for yourself, and things that make that harder to do (like weed) aren’t your friends.

Sooo… when I took a motorcycle training class, they taught us a life skill that keeps you alive while biking, but at the same time is a valuable life skill outside biking:

SIPDE

1. Survey your environment.
2. Identify potential problems.
3. Predict what will happen.
4. Decide what you’re going to do.
5. Execute your plan.

For example:

I was riding my bike to work, the rising sun was at my back, and I see a car in front of me with her left turn blinker on.

1. Oh, crap, there’s a car.
2. No way she sees me with the sun behind me.
3. She’s going to pull out in front of me.
4. I better put my hands on the brakes now.
5. She pulled out in front of me, I hit the brakes which is why I can tell you this story now.

Now, you might not ever be on a motorcycle, so this is an extreme example, but weed interferes with the process that can help keep you safe anywhere and everywhere.

There are many problems and threats in life, intentionally ganking your perception of them may make you feel better, but in the end is not helpful with dealing with them.

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“All right, fuck it, we’ll do it live!”

“Oh? You hate your job? There’s a support group for that, it’s called ‘Everybody’, we meet at the bar.” - Drew Carey

I’ve never been able to get to the end of their gamification to actually check out, I’m not seeing that as a bad thing.

In the immortal words of J.

“Don’t start nothin’, won’t be nothin’.”

Red states? Probably not. Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles? Sure.

You could do cable runs effortlessly though!

Magneto. Bulletproof, can fly, can generate an EMP. In theory could manipulate the iron in your blood.

I bought a 3 liter gravity fed water bottle for my cats and thought it would be great! They’d always have water while I’m at work.

Set it up, tested it, worked great, went to work, came home, 3 liters of water all over the kitchen floor. WTF?

Mopped it up, re-filled, everything was fine, no leaks. Went to bed, next morning all dry, no leaks. Went to work, came home, 3 liters of water all over the floor again.

WTAF?

So I clean it up and re-fill it again and I’m working next to the kitchen where I can see it.

My big male cat walks over, gets a drink, sees the bubbles float up inside the water bottle and starts SHOVELLING water out of the bowl trying to chase the bubbles…

And that’s when I got rid of the gravity fed water bowl.

Le Creuset makes a cleaner for their enameled cast iron, but I don’t think it will do anything for a ruined finish. :(

https://www.lecreuset.com/cast-iron-cookware-cleaner/94001125001005.html

“enhancing the shine of the enamel.” 🤔